Can astronauts jerk off or toss the troff in space? Would their heart monitors would show it to be elevated? Or can or has any two astronauts ever had sex in space?
Can astronauts jerk off or toss the troff in space? Would their heart monitors would show it to be elevated? Or can or has any two astronauts ever had sex in space?
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From the book "Packing for Mars" by Mary Roach:
In a memoir, astronaut Michael Collins relates a story of a physician back in the Apollo era who recommended regular masturbation on long missions, lest astronauts develop prostate infections. The flight surgeon for Collins's moon mission "decided to ignore that advice," and ignoring seems to have been the basic approach to the human sex drive ever since. It's the same way at the Russian space agency. Cosmonaut Alexandr Laveikin told me he too had heard that lengthy abstinence could cause prostate infections, but that the space agency pretends the issue doesn't exist. "It's up to yourself how you will deal with it. But everybody is doing it, everybody understands. It's nothing. My friends ask me, 'how are you making sex in space?' I say, 'By hand!'" As for the logistics: "There are possibilities. And sometimes it happens automatically while you sleep. It's natural." John Charles told me he'd heard about the link between prostate health and "self-stim" --at NASA, there's an abbreviation for everything-- but never heard any formal discussion, pro or con, of orbital masturbation.
I'm amused by the use of "automatically" when I've always heard it in my terrestrial life as "involuntarily". Changes the implication in a positive way, I'd say. Involuntary means you can't stop it. Automatic means it's supposed to happen.
From now on, I'll refer to sex as automatic fun time.
Automatic means it's supposed to happen.
From now on, I'll refer to sex as automatic fun time.
**"Your body, My choice" vibes intensify**
Oh god, not like that D:
Always upvotes for Mary Roach. Everyone should read her breakout work, Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers.
Masturbation...stiff...cadavers. I dont like that juxtaposition
Necrophilia: crack open a cold one!
She's a treasure. Reading "Spook" now.
Alas, that’s my least favorite of hers that I’ve read so far. Her angle is to all the questions you want answered, then get the answer. Spook, being about the unknowable, means the answers are a lot less fulfilling. Still a worthwhile read, just not her best in my opinion.